The ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda has kicked off the process of overhauling the country’s education system to come up with new policies that will replace the old outdated ones that were formulated way back in 1992.
Speaking to the media in Kampala, the Secretary to the Education Policy Review Commission (EPRC), Brighton Barugahare, said the Ministry has instituted an education policy review commission to review the entire sector.
He said his effort has been undertaken to align the country’s education sector to the current global demand as well as address the bottlenecks plaguing it.
Barugahare added that the commission will investigate the implementation of the decisions contained in the government white paper on education of 1992 as a macro policy framework for human capital development in the country and the existence of policies on curriculum, teaching, assessment, and placement of learners where available.
He said commission will also identify policy, program, and project gaps in the government 1992 White Paper on education, their causes, and relationship to implementation failure among others
The Secretary said other forms of stakeholder participation will include public meetings, debates, seminars, workshops, media engagement using the various platforms, and site meetings in the field and the program for such events shall be communicated and the concerned audiences notified in time.
Education analysts have welcomed this move, noting that it has been a long time coming.
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